Who are the National Government Protecting by refusing to investigate historic State abuse?

We refuse to look at abuse in state care because our cultural need to blame the beneficiary for being in such personal circumstances that require state intervention is what most angers muddle Nu Zilind , NOT that the state then goes onto abuse, assault and sexually molest the taken children.

If we look around the world, there are serious inquests in most modern societies looking into state protected paedophile rings and in the UK it’s moved from the political and broadcasting world into the sport’s world…

The report says there were 88 cases of substantiated abuse of children by CYF caregivers in 2013-14, plus 25 of children abused while with their parents but still formally in state care, and five abused in unapproved placements.

These figures are much higher than the 23 to 39 children a year abused by caregivers reported by the agency itself in the past four years.

We refuse to look at abuse in state care because our cultural need to blame the beneficiary for being in such personal circumstances that require state intervention is what most angers muddle Nu Zilind , NOT that the state then goes onto abuse, assault and sexually molest the taken children.

We have the same headspace when prisoners are abused by prisons (they wouldn’t be in prison being abused if they didn’t deserve to be there in the first place).

We refuse to blame the system of poverty that sees tens of thousands of children go to school hungry each day and we blame the parents for the 305 000 kids who live in poverty. We won’t even talk about the 550 000 NZers who experience extreme hardship annually.

30 years of neoliberalism has concreted in the belief that success and failure has nothing to do with the hegemonic structures within society, it’s all a personal dynamic.

You are rich because you are smart. You are poor because you are dumb. If you get caught up in the horrors of the neoliberal welfare state, well you deserve all you get.

We can not acknowledge the past abuse and we can not acknowledge the ongoing abuses that WINZ, Housing NZ, MSD, Corrections, CYFs and Probations create because it would challenge the very foundations of our neoliberal cultural mythology.

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National is a brutal, aggressive dictatorship that will lie at every chance to keep Kiwi’s ignorant Martyn, they are so repressive to actual honest human decency & a sworn enemy of our dignity.

The only way we will rid their cancer rotting our society is for Labour, greens, with NZ First,form a coalition to take over parliament and eject them in September as seen even on Q+A this morning the co-leader Ms Turei said as much. She said if the electorate sets the note for a change of government she can work with NZ First.

Let’s hope this does happen because the picture the three parties painted to us back in 2016 around that dinner party with her, Winston & Andrew article said “a government in waiting”

The neo-libs go even further than that Martyn.
They advocate that only the chosen ones (themselves naturally) should be allowed to produce children. If you can’t afford to bring them up in wealth then you shouldn’t have them – their argument goes.
Wealth is everything to them, of course. The neo-libs automatically assume that to bring a child up in wealth means they are well looked after.
That is not true in itself, just because you are wealthy does not necessarily make you a good parent and by the same token just because you are poor doesn’t necessarily make you a bad parent either.
It is all about perceived privilege – I can afford to meet the material needs of a child therefore I am more worthy of producing them – so their argument goes.
That is how trolls like Gosman, Andrew O, David See-More and the rest of the odious bunch work. They think THEY have all the privileges.
I have news for you trolls and it is all bad.
You have nothing but your own ego, and when the revolution comes your ego won’t be worth s…t.